Stove-door



. (No Model.) G. T. ORANDELL.

STOVE DOOR.

No. 343,986. Patented June 22, 1886.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE T. ORANDELL, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

STOVE DOOR.

SPECIFICATIQNforming part of Letters Patent No. 343,986, dated June 22, 1886.

Application filed November-17, 1885. Serial No. 183,067. (No model.)

T0 01. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. CRANDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove Doors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawin s.

lily invention relates to stove-doors and the latch thereof, and the objects of my improve- 'n1ent are to provide means for preventing the escape of red-hot coals upon the floor or within the body of a car, if on account of an accident the stove become upset, and means for automatically retaining the door latched and secured in whatever position the stove may occupy. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a stove having a catch and door and door-latch constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the stove door. Fig. 8 is a verticalsection of a portion of the stove, showing the catch in side view and the latch in end view. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the catch with the latch removed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one end of the latch. Fig. 6 is an end view of the 1atch,showing the locking -wings and a spring between them. Fig. 7 is a side view of a hooked handle or poker to release the latch from the catch.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Arepresents the main portion of the eggshape body of a cast-iron stove provided with my improvement; but said improvement can just as well be applied to stoves of other material and configurations.

The doorB is hinged at b to the body in the usual manner, and is provided with a revolving draft-regulating door, 0, having segmental openings 0 therein of usual construction, the body of the door B having corresponding segmental openings underneath the door O. To prevent small lumps of red-hot coal from escaping through the openings 0, (in case the stove becomes upset,) a piece of woven wire, 0', as a screen, is inserted between the doors G and B, and a loosely-clinched rivet, 0 inserted centrally therein and also passing through the inner end of the latch D retains these parts together.

To retain the door 13 securely latched, the catch a has made in its top a narrow vertical slot, a, extending ashort distance, from which it is expanded into a triangular opening, of, the upper edge of which forms shoulders at on each side of the slot at, to retain into engagement the two wings cl that form part of the latch D and are hinged at d to its lower edge, and adjoining the outer end thereof where the sides of the latch are recessed, so that when the wings d are folded close to the body of the latch,as whensaid latch is entering in or issuing from the slot at in the catch, their outer face is even with the side faces of the latch; but as the slightest lateral motion of the latch, while dropping it into the notch of the catch, causes them to open, their normal position is as shown in Figs. 3 and 5- that is, divergent from the body of the latch.

To guard against any possibility of the wings d remaining closed,either a coiled spring or a light flat spring, 6, may be placed between them, as shown in Fig. 6.

To facilitate the closing of the wings and lifting of the latch out of the catch, a loose chain-link, f, is inserted into the outer end of each wing, and a large ring, F, is made to pass through the links f, so that if the latch happens to be hot the hooked end of a poker or the hook G can be inserted in the ring F, and by elevating it the wings first become closed and a continuation of the movement lifts the latch out of the catch.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of a stove-catch having a vertical slot and shoulders projecting inwardly therein with a door-latch and wings hinged thereto, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a catch having a vertical slot and shoulders projecting inwardly therein with a door-latch with wings hinged thereto and the links and ring uniting them, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a door-latch and wings hinged thereto with a catch having a V or triangular slot and shoulders projecting In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature in inwardly therein, substantially as described. presence of two witnesses. 1

4. The combination of a catch having a vertical slot and shoulders projecting inward- GEORGE ORANDELL' 5 1y therein with a door-latch and wings hinged Witnesses:

thereto with a spring between said wings, sub- 1 WM. J. KNOX,

stantially as described. JEREMIAH F. FITZGERALD. 

